Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works : a handbook (1875)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York : Hurd and Houghton · leaf 249
on the other sidewith youth and beauty. They dance ; a feast is spread, etc., and theonly sad thing is that the men retain their age and their gray locks.His mythological pictures are naive and somewhat graceful, but are 230 CRANACH. almost burlesques upon good renderings of such subjects. He… … GROUP FROM A PAINTING BY LUCAS CRANACH. so rapid that he was called celeivimus pictor. He was in the ser-vice of Frederick the Wise, and was retained by his two successors,John the Constant, and John Frederick the Generous. When thelatter was a prisoner for live years, Cranach remained with him, to…
